RE: SI2013SP1

2012-06-18 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Hey And where is this update? I can’t see on subscription… From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eric Cosky Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:23 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: SI2013SP1 Just installed S

Re: Maya Euler Filter for Softimage

2012-06-18 Thread Miquel Campos
inside Fcurve editor >> Curves >> Make rotation continuous + Miquel Campos Character & Animation TD at: www.shedmtl.com Personal web: www.akaosaru.com + 2012/6/18 Enrique Caballero > Hey guys, > An animator here just asked me if Softimage has an equivalent

Maya Euler Filter for Softimage

2012-06-18 Thread Enrique Caballero
Hey guys, An animator here just asked me if Softimage has an equivalent to Maya's Euler filter. I haven't used Maya in years but I didn't have an answer for him. I assume that due to rotations being represented as quats for us we don't have anything similar. Is there a tool that I can point hi

SI2013SP1

2012-06-18 Thread Eric Cosky
Just installed SP1, no problems so far and it's nice to see a few pet bugs have been fixed. Thanks for the update. -Eric Cosky

Ice : processing each point in an specific order

2012-06-18 Thread Sam Cuttriss
is there a way (avoiding loop/ while nodes) to define an array of point id's that dictate the order they are assesssed. i can think of plenty of ways with loops etc but im drawing a blank for an efficent way of doing it. _sam

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Kamen Lilov
On 6/18/2012 11:06 PM, Nicolas Burtnyk wrote: Don't get me started with the dirty list :) I shouldn't be too hard on it though - it's actually come in handy for 1 specific case - it's the only good way that I've found to detect that a shader parameter has changed while scrubbing a slider *befo

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Well put Peter. My company actually pays Autodesk a decent amount of money to be part of ADN (Autodesk Developer Network) so that we can use a handful of licenses of the various DCC tools for development purposes. With that, we get access to support but the process of working through an issue fro

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread peter_b
that’s a shame. I was going to reply to your original mail, saying something like: that’s all very interesting, but is there no better channel to get into contact with softimage developers than this mailing list? 3rd party developers should have a prime communication line to the target software’

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Don't get me started with the dirty list :) I shouldn't be too hard on it though - it's actually come in handy for 1 specific case - it's the only good way that I've found to detect that a shader parameter has changed while scrubbing a slider *before* the renderer process callback is fired. The O

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Thanks Kamen - To compound my frustration, Autodesk is being very closed about discussing this issue with me. I wanted a simple conversation with the Soft dev guys to explain why this is a problem and suggest some solutions. Unfortunately I'm not a "Enterprise Priority" customer (lol) so I have t

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Steven Caron
i believe he has been down this road already. its lacking... On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Stephan Woermann < swoerman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > There is a DirtyList attribute in the renderes context, maybe that helps a > little... > > Stephan >

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Stephan Woermann
There is a DirtyList attribute in the renderes context, maybe that helps a little... Stephan

attribute propagation across topo operators

2012-06-18 Thread Sam Cuttriss
i think this was mentioned recently. but im curious what the intended workflow is for dealing with attributes over topo operators? ie geo with preexisting uvs has an extrude operator assigned. the uvs now display 0,0 for all nodes. traditionally any new nodes/samples generated extruding via the i

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Kamen Lilov
On 6/18/2012 8:29 PM, Nicolas Burtnyk wrote: Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a piece of information I discovered while developing our custom renderer for Softimage. Thanks Nicolas! We've hit the problem with "persistent" CRef / X3DObject references before and invested a lot of effort i

RE: price increases?

2012-06-18 Thread Simon Van de Lagemaat
I love Modo but it is in NO way ready for even moderate production loads. I know because I've tried to implement it here for commercial production and there are quite a few roadblocks that hold it back. That's not to say it isn't capable on smaller jobs, it most certainly is. As it stands now

Re: Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread alok.gandhi
Wow ! That is scary ! Good find Nicolas and thanks for the heads up. No wonder soft also crashes sometimes when using Application.DeleteObj() command in python as well, I wonder if it is caused by the same reason. Maybe same happens for VB or Java but I am not sure. The only duct-tape solution t

Heads up to plugin developers regarding CRef

2012-06-18 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a piece of information I discovered while developing our custom renderer for Softimage. We were having an issue where Soft would hang when we were extracting the scene for rendering after deleting a light in the scene. It turns out that the problem was cause by

Re: Ice feathers..

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Buettner
Awesome work on the feathers! Thanks for the mention of my plugin Stefan. @Vince: Have a video of how your grooming and placement works? I'd love to see. Cheers, Michael On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Vince Baertsoen wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > Thats a very good question. > I did look at it, it'

RE: price increases?

2012-06-18 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Modo is one of the possible candidates. I was working with LW for four years, and I was working with modo for a while. It's quite different, but it might be a good direction. Of course it's just my opinion, my bosses will make the decision, but looking at the facts, if the price increase is that

Re: price increases?

2012-06-18 Thread olivier jeannel
"...we are considering to migrate to cheaper, more reliable product..." Which one ? ...just curious. Le 18/06/2012 15:38, Szabolcs Matefy a écrit : To be honest, due to the increased unreliability of Autodesk products, and the increasing price, we are considering to migrate to cheaper, more

RE: price increases?

2012-06-18 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
To be honest, due to the increased unreliability of Autodesk products, and the increasing price, we are considering to migrate to cheaper, more reliable product out of the Autodesk household. Why I should pay for bugfixes? Why should I pay money for delivering useless, untested stuff? It's not a

RE: price increases?

2012-06-18 Thread Williams, Wayne
"I can't believe AD's policy concerning pricing. I've dropped both my subs due to the 70% price increase for uk subscribers - so are the prices going up even more?!" You are doing the right thing. Money talks, and when enough of it does, it roars. Just stop upgrading, stop subscription. When en

Re: price increases?

2012-06-18 Thread Matt Morris
I can't believe AD's policy concerning pricing. I've dropped both my subs due to the 70% price increase for uk subscribers - so are the prices going up even more?! I'll think about upgrading again when they sort out their INSANE price policies. 2013 should do me for a while yet. Given that we're i

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-06-18 Thread Michal Doniec
I've learned how to model faces from one nurbs surface from this one. On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: > Friday Flashback #74 > Secrets of Softimage 3D from 1997 > http://wp.me/powV4-1V1 > > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc